Born and raised in Hawaii. After I moved away to a place where it’s dog-eat-dog, rat race, every man/woman for themselves environment, I realize how precious, lucky, and thankful I am to be able to grow up in a beautiful place and simple life where friends, family, community and enjoying beaches, mountain streams and the beauty of the islands are what’s important. I keep the calm and laid back attitude in my heart with me and let others around me stress themselves out over trivial unimportant things. Anyone can go to Hawaii, but not everyone can say they are from Hawaii and know truly what the Aloha Spirit means and carry it in their heart.
I lived in Hawaii back in the 70s, in Kahaluu, and it was peaceful and beautiful. But I also felt the justifiable anger towards my race and outsiders, there, as well. After my father was hit by a car and killed there, due to the unbearable traffic as a result of the heavy Oahu population, I felt that I should return to the mainland, as my presence was only contributing to the commercialism and pollution of the islands. And Honolulu has much of the same crime and problems of Mainland urban centers, thanks to the invasion of the outsiders since the 1600s.
We last kanaka are watching the last light of our blood and people these are the last generations we have almost gone the way of everyrhing else.... to say that something is hawaiian is the same as endangered or extinct..... breaks my heart knowing i cant afford to live in my home.. but id rather stay away than watch whats left of our people be destroyed by poverty, while they lose family homes.... than get marched off home... the generation the aloha finally died.......
@@christophergramling4898 Christ, Jesus said to hate evil, brother, and I HATE that I agree fully with you since delusion has replaced island-Mystery !!!!
When my sisters were younger my dad used to play this song through the speakers while we ate dinner. He would sing along to the lyrics while the sun could be seen setting through our dining room window, the light summer breeze would flow in through the open doors and the small sounds of birds chirping could be heard outside. "Last night I dreamt I was returning..." I can still see him singing those words and I'm so happy that I have this song to remember him by. I love and miss you, dad.
My husband and I were listening to these guys sing in a restaurant in Honolulu when he proposed in front of my parents and asked my Dad for my hand. My Mom got so excited, she jumped up to hug us and knocked her hot Irish Coffee into Tom's lap. Amidst the confusion, my Dad said deadpan, "You can still back out, you know". They are all gone now, but I can close my eyes and remember how excited I was at that moment. I love the guitar in this .I love you, Tom. Dad and Mom.
Occasionally I have cried hearing some songs. But, I have never cried so many times to any other song. This one never fails. Every note contains the essence of Hawaii.
I’m not Hawaiian…my family is from Guam. But we love this song and we certainly feel it’s meaning. It holds even more meaning now for us, as it was one of my dad’s favorite songs. I cannot help but cry as I reminisce about him and living “down home” in our small village during the 1980s, while singing along to this song. Something about missing home…the time when life was simpler when you were younger, and when your family was still together. Gets me every time.
I remember descending Olomana, leaping like a mountain goat from boulder to grass, from pathway to tree, flying, one with the 'aina, breathing the mountain air, māna flowing freely, my spirit glowing. I awoke from a nap on the floor of the ironwood forest at the foot of Olomana to rejoin the others, who had descended along the trail in the traditional way, when they arrived there near the road to return to civilization. I know I am not as I was when I left Hawai'i, and I know that Hawai'i has changed, but I know we will accept each other as we are. Bimeby perhaps I will return. Then I shall again be in Hawai'i as Hawai'i has always been in me.
This song touches my soul...makes me remember growing up on Oahu in the 70's and 80's swimming at Ala Moana beach, going to Kapiolani park, watching Checkers and Pogo after school and Kikaida, eating manapua and shave ice. Those were innocent times. And though the world and things change, my memories of those wonderful days stay and I will always consider Hawaii my home no matter where I am in the world.
+D Chang - Came to Hawaii for UH back in 70's and left for Mainland before 9-11. Everytime the plane coming in to HNL airport, I still feel that I am coming home. Do not feel that strong any other places that i went.
+Jah Boize I'm not sure that, I know what I'm doing, I wanted to make a comment, about a comment, about a song that brings tears of long past dreams......
I’m reading through the comments and I can’t help but cry. Our way of life is changing so drastically and I feel nothing is being done to preserve it. I see so many out there who’ve been forced to move away from our home, our land, and most importantly what makes us, us. Come home and let’s stand together to take back and preserve our way of life. Aloha aina!
Born and spent my youngest years in Puna. Grew up in seattle, got enough for a downpayment and now i’m getting ready to come back home. Preserving our lifestyle and culture is important
Leaving for Washington in few months…hart is broken and I’m no longer welcome in the island I was born. As a living relative of king David a queen lily farewell my Hawaii I will no longer be laid to rest in my birthplace.
This is spiritual for me, nothing tops the music of Hawaii for me. I grew up in Maunawili, one picture window I woke up to Olomana, the other window the Pali. Gods finest work. I miss it so. I pray I can get back to Hawaii as soon as I can. In the mean time I can listen to this music. Aloha ke Akua.
My parents live in Maunawili. They moved there many years ago from Kaneohe. Mauniwili is God's Country. I now live in Seattle and get to visit HOME in Hawaii.
I also grew up in Maunawili , next to the bridge going up the road into the country and the newer homes just across the street . My cousin Dean got me listining to Olomana and Country Confort , he became a muscian and played at the ChartHouse in town for more than 30 years ! He just passed away last year and song will alway have a special place for me !
My family's from Laie, but I was mainland born. Lived there from 1977 to 1980. Never was the same afterwards. I dedicated this song to my wife Melissa who passed away in 2007 from breast cancer. The song speaks to my heart and gives comfort to my soul. A hui ho Ka mea ohi nani, a hui ho.
I lived here then too when I was barely 20. Left to see a bigger world, left my family , left whet friends I had. Came back fifteen years later. Buried my parents and live here now 20+ some years.
I lived in Hawaii from 1974 till 2005. Best years of my life. Best friends, best times. Age 75 now going on 20 yrs. in Thailand. Couldn't think of returning to the mainland.True what they say "you can't go home again" RIP Robert B. Mahalo Olomana.
This song eases my soul for some reason. I’ve never been to Hawaii and I have nobody in my family that is Hawaiian. But I have always wanted to go there or live there. I have really bad anxiety most of the time. When I’m stressed out or I can’t sleep, I put this song on and it immediately makes me feel very happy and makes me remember the very few good times that I had as a child. Makes me appreciative towards life. It also helps me sleep.... no kidding. I’m out like a light and snoring before the song is even over lol. Much love to you all.
Then when this Covid is over, you get yourself a plane ticket, and CV one visit these island(s)...I'm on Oahu, by the way, I live in Kahaluu....I'm looking at the ocean, its beautiful, peaceful, and I am not a local, but I was blessed to work here in 1979...I'm still here....so Aloha to you, I'm glad you are comforted by the sounds of Hawaii...May the Peace of God continue to Bless you. Aloha, Tom Mestas
I live on O'ahu for 11 years, my guess with slack-key guitar or a lot musician from Hawai'i is the music based on pacing of the Tradewinds. I think it's why you find is southing. It like being up camping at Kahana bay and hearing the trade rustling sound in plam fronds all night. For example Arthur Lyman grew up in HNL and even if Yellow bird is faux Polynesian the tempo is same as more serious musicians from the era (like Gabby Pahuni) ua-cam.com/video/mv1GpoaSzxQ/v-deo.html
Every note of this magnificent song plucks at my heartstrings. I lived on Maui for 35 years and i am so homesick for Hawaii there are no words to convey how much i miss The majestic beauty, the magnificient hearts of the hawaiian people & those beautiful islands. I love every song Olomana ever recorded, that Jerry ever recorded but this one remains very special and deeply cradled in my heart forever. Beautiful Hawaii i love and miss you so much... someday i hope to return and never leave again.
This is one of those songs that prove you can travel back in time..to a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, a certain moment - even a certain second..and you can smell what you smelled, feel what you felt..and be there.....for just a little while..aloha -kuahiwi
I sit here in Fresno, homesick for Hawaii, this song takes me right back to where I grew up. Doing all these things as a kid before the many changes occurred. It was a magical place to grow up. . .aloha aina...
This lovely island home we all live in, just isn't the same as it used to be. The newer generation are losing touch with their roots, and aloha is a thing of the past. Cling dearly to those memories, I remember a day and time when these islands stood for something more than what this state has become. But I carry the aloha with me, in my heart, and I spread my mana'o everywhere I go, in hopes of rejuvination. I miss that energy I used to feel in everybody I would meet, oh how I wish I could go back. Aloha from Big Island!!
+Rose Swearingen Yeah I know... Me too... I live in Portland Oregon these dayz... But, I feel that our culture never left any of us and still to this day and beyond it will always will be with you.
Wow. Have lived in Clovis for the past 11 years (Missouri a few years before Clovis). Left the 50th back in '02. Never really got homesick. Until a couple of years ago. Been back the past couple of years. Hard to leave and return to the Central Valley...
Last night I dreamt I was returning And my heart called out to you But I fear I won’t be like I left you Me kealoha ku’u home o Kahalu’u Love this song. Jerry Santos sang & wrote it beautifully.
I grew up near Kahalu'u and always will remember being a kid and spending my weekends there. I'm 53 now and there is not a day goes by I dont think about my dad and my ohana growing up in Honokohau. The most valuable thing we have is time with our families. Aloha ke akua!
One of the best songs ever written or sung. I was living on Maui when I first heard Olomana do that song on the radio. I was so moved I had to pull over....I thought I was dreaming because I had just heard the most beautiful song ever. I remember that moment like it was yesterday.
You know what I feel the EXACT SAME way my guy , I wish i could hear it for the first time again as that was one of the best experiences of my life. I deadass listened to this song on loop for over an hour while on a boat. Anyways love from the Caribbean 🤙🏾
@@charlesm.9858 Charles. My dad is from Da Valley Isle and a graduate of Liahinanluna High School. My youngest sister a graduate of Maui High School. No doubt...Maui no ka'oi!
When I visited Hawaii for the first time ever from Papua New Guinea..I felt I had come home..it was as if I knew the soul of this land and it knew me...I realized many islanders feel this way about Hawaii..When I hear this song a type of deep inexplicable melancholy sense of homesickness washes over me...beautiful Hawaii..you will always be a special spiritual home to us..
This song makes me emotional, I'm not from Hawaii but I wish I was. Just the beautiful hearted people by it's self is mesmerizing ❤ thank you for showing us western people what true heartship sounds like ❤
I was stationed in Pearl Harbor for 4 years. In short, I got involved with the culture and the people. It was so hard to leave when the time came. yes I married one of the islanders from Wailua and still have family on island today. With all that has happened since (even a return trip in 2016) for my brother in law's funeral. I can say no place feels the way Hawaii does. I miss it so much. And like so many other listeners here on YT, I too have a hard time controling the tears. Hawaii.... you will ever be inside me and never leave.
Tears and fond memories...parents lived in Kahalu'u. Got married in Kahalu'u. This is one of my all time favorite songs. Getting chicken skin listening to it now.
I remember days when we were younger We used to catch 'o'opu in the mountain stream 'Round the Ko'olau hills we'd ride on horseback So long ago it seems it was a dream Last night I dreamt I was returning and my heart called out to you But I fear you won't be like I left you Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu I remember days when we were wiser When our world was small enough for dreams And you have lingered there my sister And I no longer can it seems Last night I dreamt I was returning and my heart called out to you But I fear you won't be like I left you Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu Change is a strange thing it cannot be denied It can help you find yourself or make you lose your pride Move with it slowly as on the road we go Please do not hold on to me we all must go alone I remember days when we were smiling When we laughed and sang the whole night long And I will greet you as I find you With the sharing of a brand new song Last night I dreamt I was returning and my heart called out to you To please accept me as you'll find me Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
i listen to this song because I live in Cheyenne, Wyoming and I am a rare breed. I am half native american, and half Hawaiian my name is jonah and i have a message for you, yes you reading this commment, i am separated from my native land and treated as any other equal person. i miss hawaii and i plan to return to oahu waimanalo hawaii. (we all need one another, the gift of aloha comes from the heart.) simply put these lyrics speak volumes of what we desire.
I come from Kona, Hawai'i and my roots run deep in the Aina I call home. I worked in Yellowstone for 2 years and all I could feel was the deepest Mana in that Aina. Though it was Aina I was foreign too, I felt the Kupuna of those areas took me in as a brother of a similar culture and of a similar struggle. Aloha, Braddah 🙏🏽
You are a good person….you speak from your soul. Waimanalo waits for your return to the Hawaiian Islands. Further there are many families in Hawaii who are Native Americans. I believe some Native Americans is on Big Island. In the 1800’s, Ships mainly travelled from Europe passing through dangerous Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean. my grandfathers oldest brotherJoe Soares(real name is Goulart Silva) a Merchant Mariner died Cape Horn. American ships travelled from the Northwest to Foreign Countries. My grandfather Christian Soares belongs to the Barrett Family whom quite a few were Merchant Mariners. My Uncle Christopher (Sonny) Soares said his father Chris lied his age and became a Merchant Mariner at age15. Aloha Waianae Girl!
Grew up on Maui and I miss it so much. Listen and cry to great Hawaiian music. I really wanna go back, brahdda, to the old days before condos and mansions. I want cane fields and skinny dipping in Kihei.
problem is, the old days had operation Green Harvest, more social problems, and less tech and medicine. I get what you're saying though, gentrification hasn't been kind to Maui
I don't recommend being homeless on Oahu anymore it sure has changed since the late 90s cops don't let you sleep anywhere and the ice addicts took over all of Waikiki
Speed Racer, Princess Knight Checkers and Pogo-bobbing for apples, Professor Fun, making thos upside down glasses with your fingers, eating a donut from a string, etc. Great memories! Life was simple back then and everything was a heck of a lot cheaper-Horlicks, Astro pops, Pez, candy chockers, Ovaltine, cinnamon toast for snack, musubi, vienna sausage, and carrots for lunch. Soda-25cents.
John Kasinger I miss home so much. I dream I am back home in Kailua nearly every night. I live to see that dream come to fruition. Love and Aloha to My Hanai bothers and sisters C. Yvette Benton
This song touched so many of us growing up in Hawai'i Nei. For me it was in the valleys along the Hamakua Coastline. Our playground was vast and we would stumble across hidden waterfalls filling swimming holes with clear, cool water.
Aloha my people I remember this song growing up in nanakuli in the 70s my pops and family playing olomana and now missing my mom and pops. I always make sure that my kids today love and honor olomana
My mother is from Nanakuli! We would move back and forth from California to Hawaii and vice versa. Spent a good amount of time there in the '70s. It was rough being the first hapa haole in my mothers family but have fond memories of life in Nanakuli.
It also gettn me thinkin 'bout grin'din lomi salmon, poi, pipikaula, portagee sausage, rice, porkhash, & mounds of laulau, with guava juice - ice cubes inside da cup. Then top it off drink hot Kona coffee with kulolo Ohmahgawad!!!! I die go heavun.
Having lived in Hawaii for 14 years, off and on since the 80's and hearing from my grandparents who went before me about so many sad changes, this song tugs at my heart. The lyrics are also so true for anyone wondering about "going back home" wherever that home may be. And also about one's life too "when our world was small enough of dreams." The quintessential Hawaii song, "Ku`u Home' has multiple layers of meanings and Olomana is just beautiful.
just a child of Hawaii 90's baby with so much aloha and mana to give the world today. mahalo ke kapunas. my weaknesses became my strengths. Hawaii Oahu is where I'm from ewa to waipahu to waianae to wahiawa forever a local boyy in the the mainland
I am blessed to live in the beautiful mountains of Park City, Utah; but I constantly miss Hawaii. Once Aloha gets into your blood, it never leaves and ever beckons when you're away. Working on a plan to get back...permanently.
Ur lucky park city is amazing, the town ski lift and the town life is amazing i hate hawaii theres nothing to do and its just a giant tourist attraction now
I tried to go back last October...Oh My. Everything has changed so much. Still, I found peace and some of the Olden Times on the Island of Moloka'i. But don't tell anybody!
Good luck..da windward side is still country. People who hate da aina don't know the true spirit of da land da people and of course da ohana. ...you can do it brahda! Live your dream. One life.
I was the morning manager of Blue Water Sea Food in Waikiki in 87/88 we had to play a tape of Hawaiian music in the morning for breakfast I think this song was on it...wow....I wish I could go back with what I know now,,,
Wow!! I just got chills down my back. I have *not* heard this song since almost 40 yrs ago. When my birth-family use to live in Kaneohe, O'ahu. That's how old this *great awesome song* is. =)
I’m married to a Hawaiian man and have come to his home many times during our 35 years together. We loved taking my mother in law to the old Chai’s at Aloha tower to hear Jerry Santos perform. He was always very gracious and came to give her a hug and dedicate a song to her. I fell in love with all his music, but this was always my favorite. My mother in law had to leave her beloved islands to live with us in California when she could no longer care for herself at 96. She passed away this last December, at age 102. We brought her ashes home to be buried next to her husband and daughter. My husband and I are listening to this lovely song, getting choked up. Beautiful memories.
One of the best gifts the Air Force has given me over the last 16 years of service is 3 years living on the islands. It was my first base and I still miss it there. I loved the people, culture, the island life and especially the music. There was never an unhappy song. Even if I couldn't understand the lyrics, the music itself made me happy.
I am born and raised in Hawaii. When I was at AIT for the army, 6 months away from home, I’d listen to these songs whenever I got homesick to soothe me. Would bring a tear to my eyes whenever it was just me alone at CQ during the night.
You should look into Abby Martins (empire files) report about what the military base (cant recall which island/area) is storing underground, what I believe is mass amounts of jet fuel that is now seeping through after 60 or so years of storage since the cold war. Which has devastated local water supplies and wildlife.
@Beauty Disguised as Truth I heard something about that. It's from WWII if I remember right. A fuels storage broke down and is seeping into the ground water. It's sad that they did all that stuff back then without thinking what the long term effects would be.
growing up on the Waianae coast in the 70s and 80s, this was one of the staple songs before even FM100. miss it. living in texas now. big difference in culture but Waianae will always be home. Aloha
advhutch Yeah I left Maili 20 years ago... Ever since I have been stuck in Portland Oregon. Their are a diverse culture here but, there are also a culture that keeps it to themselves... Personally I really don't like it. I miss maili/Waiane and tumble land the a lot. That was my homeland.
Missing what was and will never be again. Good times good friends even if I go back home...its not home anymore. that is gone...thank you my brudahs for the songs...they are forever ;0)
Makes me miss what I had before. I had a family on the beach in Hawai’i on North Shore. Mom would play since when we had parties, luau and just get togethers with the whole compound of 12 units. Those volleyball games, dogs playing on the beach, Bon fires at night, platform in the wall where we played games, firework wars with the neighbors 😂 who had the most bad ass 🤪, and when the food was sooo Ono 😋 Now that’s all gone but at least I have the memories
My most favorite song in da world. It always brings me back though I'm no longer on the islands. I pray to return before I die to my heartland. "Me ke aloha ku' u home o' Oahu"
+Brent Perry I learned to dance this song, Kupuna Saffrey in Lahaina at Kam 3 school, it came back, I always cry when I hear this even if I only do the hand movements..chicken skin.
My sister and I lived in Maui and now she lives in galiano island and I live on the mainland but every time I stepped on the plane to come,back to Maui this song was playing and I couldn't wait to get back to the islands, we love this song! W
Been in the mainland (Seattle) since 1984. This song takes me back. Listening to KKUA while building my plastic model dune buggy. Miss Kailua, Enchanted Lakes. Under the shadow of Mt. Olomana.
Love love this song...my son Kevin's first time on the guitar...he learned this song from his cousins...now he is in heaven playing it for his ohana up there...his 2 brothers, grandparents, uncles, aunties and cousins...brings back a whole lot of memories...
70's Makiki, Waipahu, Makakilo, Ewa Beach, Hau Bush, Waimanalo, Kailua, Diamond Head Crater fest. weekends in Waikiki on Kalakaua. Laie. Yes this song takes me back to a place that runs deep in my veins. Mahalo Olomana. Aloha...
As much as we deride the technology of today, it gives us the opportunity to find these songs again. To revisit our youth on the islands, the life we felt in the land, and to contemplate our return. 'Please accept me as you find me' is as true today as it was so many years ago. Mahalo Olomana.
This song is powerful. The most powerful song that evokes a flood of emotions from my heart and many memories of growing up and not realizing what a blessing it was to have the opportunity to be there at the time. Now days I'm stuck in UTAH. lol
Kawika Chun The brothers. And sisters Gathering at Puas house in Hswaii kai after paddling for Hui Nalu At Maunalua bay.Eating stew and rice,chili also with plenty mayo. Listening to Olomana singing Kahuluu. Memories of all us Hawaiians together enjoying life together . Aloha and Malama Pono.
oahu.. 1965-1967 back 1968-1974 back 1976-1977 now indiana, want to know what i really miss? the koolaus , every morning to wake up and see the clouds and waterfalls.. and the smell of nuuanu pali drive,the eucalyptus.... and the smell of white ginger flowers......
First time I heard this magic song was in Pahoa.Visiting the treehouse of a very dear ,loving departed friend Victoria.Always brings tears to my eyes..change is especcially difficult when it brings the loss of one so loved..god be with you Darling.
I remember cruzing the beaches of Oahu in the 80's with my mom dad & sister. Man those where the day's! Thanks for all the great memories Oahu! Most of all the time that was spent with my 👪
Grew up in Kahalu'u. This song always makes me a bit home sick. I moved away many years ago, but still remember running up the trails to the Ko'olaus, sliding down the red mud slides, showering in the waterfall, then eating wild fruit all the way home... Those memories give me comfort. After 22 years, I now call New Zealand home..
I have left Hawaii but I have taken so many memories with to last a lifetime. Thank you Olomana for the beautiful memories and sharing your music. I shall return some day to experience the eauty of your islands!
I am back in Lahaina, but am feeling heart sick for the old songs like this one, which points out how undeniable changes are and that we can't hold back time even though I would love to relieve my time in Hawaii.
when i moved to the Big Island in '77 this was one of the first songs that i heard while kickin on da beach from some bruddas singing kanikapili into the late Hawaiian night; takes me back to a more simpler time and some great friends from then on. Miss my island brudda's and sista's !!!!
I moved to Hawaii in 84, I was 14 years old! my friend Ted introduced this song to me. There is no other song that brings me closer to Hawaii! So blessed to have had 33 years in paradise! So sad! From the mainland!
@@RAS-gn5ll In my case, I had no choice to move to Hawaii in '68, because I was a kid living with my family. But 8 years later I moved back to the mainland, in spite of falling in love with the Islands, because I felt that being an outsider, I was more a part of the problem in Hawaii, than the solution.
This is the song that SPOKE to me about being Hawaiian. The first time I heard it, my transformation from Haole to Kanaka began. My "Kama'aina Birth" Song, so to speak. So Powerful. Mahalo - Jerry & Robert \ooo/
Went to college in Hawaii in the late 70's. Would have loved to have stayed there, but it was not to be. Songs like this bring back wonderful memories.
I’m Native from Kahalu’u and I was born and raised right behind Uncle Jerry’s Sister Aunty Enid’s House, next to St. John’s By The Sea Episcopal Church. Ho’okano Hall right across the street from where the old Pineapple Hut used to be, on Wailau Point, the park, etc. That whole neighborhood was full of generations of family. I went to pre-school at Ho’okano Hall, Head Start when was just down and across the street from the elementary school. I still remember the names of my teachers, Mrs. Ciotti, and Mrs. Lopez. I went to Kahalu’u Elementary School. My mom used work at the old Key Project when it was by the Hygienic Store. My dad was one of the OG’s that set up business right under the Banyan tree for years. Before that at the Texaco parking across the street. I tried to see Uncle Jerry play earlier this year at the Hilton, but he canceled the night I went because he was sick. I was so disappointed, to say the least. I was down because three of our family members died earlier this year, really close together. The older generations disappearing, so sad, and now I’m entering into the older generation. Mahalo Uncle Jerry for blessing us with your music! When I miss home, I jam this song and others to cry it all off. Nobody can understand the emotional connections this song brings, as much as people from Kahalu’u, who had to leave it behind, especially if they grew up there in the 70’s when this song came out. Kahalu’u was like an island within an island, a very unique culture of its own, back in the old days, when it was more country than it is today. Everything in the lyrics I can relate to and imagine doing my self, just like I was back in time. Unreal. To all the kanaka ma’olis and kama’ainas that find this Aloha!
We must be about the same age those were the happiest times of My Life as well and I remember Checkers and pogo pog, kikaida, and everything that you mentioned. How wonderful those days were! With God in your heart those memories will live on forever.
I was 18 in the Navy living in San Jose, CA. It was a cold December morning and I was listening to this on my Walkman watching the sun rise in the smoggy sky. I was waiting for my cousin to pick me up. I remember it like it was just yesterday... fond memories :)
Family home going back to the mid 1960's is in Hauula up the windward side. Still get out there every winter and think of this song every time I drive through Kahaluu coming from Honolulu.
My family moved from Samoa to Kalihi. Lived there for four years. Then moved to Kahaluu for my high school years. No matter how many times I’ve moved, “me ke aloha kuu home o Kahaluu”
I lived in Kahaluu during my high school years, also! Graduated Kailua High, in 1972. I had a district exemption to go to Kailua High. I loved Kahaluu so much. The most beautiful place, anywhere. And the local people were so kind and full of aloha. If only the real Hawaii could be preserved the way it used to be. Mahalo. Hau'oli La Pakoa!
My grandpa passed away on June 16th, 2017. Him and my grandma raised my mom and her sisters in Kahalu'u and this song reminds me so much of him. Love and miss you pops!
Love this song...I lived in Waikiki in the 70's, worked a beach shack at Fort Derussy before the Hale Koa was build. This song would come on and everyone stopped to listen. When I hear it now I still stop, smile and hear the waves, and remember such a magical time. I still have the LP
I cry every time I hear this song because it was my papas favorite song. It brings back so many memories and makes me proud to be born and raised Hawaiian.
D Chang, I am in Amman Jordan listening to this beautiful song while doing dialysis in a foreign land but my heart is in Hawaii. I concur wholeheartedly with your comments. Hawaii is not the same but wherever we’re, it will always be home for us. Aloha!
Born and raised in Hawaii. After I moved away to a place where it’s dog-eat-dog, rat race, every man/woman for themselves environment, I realize how precious, lucky, and thankful I am to be able to grow up in a beautiful place and simple life where friends, family, community and enjoying beaches, mountain streams and the beauty of the islands are what’s important. I keep the calm and laid back attitude in my heart with me and let others around me stress themselves out over trivial unimportant things. Anyone can go to Hawaii, but not everyone can say they are from Hawaii and know truly what the Aloha Spirit means and carry it in their heart.
VERY WELL SAID!!!
I feel the same about the caribbean, theres a certain peace in living a simple life on a beautiful island, surrounded by your people and culture.
You should go back and live in Hawai'i
Hallelujah, you !!!!
I lived in Hawaii back in the 70s, in Kahaluu, and it was peaceful and beautiful. But I also felt the justifiable anger towards my race and outsiders, there, as well. After my father was hit by a car and killed there, due to the unbearable traffic as a result of the heavy Oahu population, I felt that I should return to the mainland, as my presence was only contributing to the commercialism and pollution of the islands. And Honolulu has much of the same crime and problems of Mainland urban centers, thanks to the invasion of the outsiders since the 1600s.
I could listen to this song on repeat for the rest of my life.
That's been my life!
No ka oi, Hawaii!
Me too. Brings tears to my eyes. Such a beautiful song. ❤
The tears flow with memories
It brings tears to my eyes to see all the kanaka who had to leave the aina. Just as much as you miss home, we miss you.
Yea; mahalo.
We last kanaka are watching the last light of our blood and people these are the last generations we have almost gone the way of everyrhing else.... to say that something is hawaiian is the same as endangered or extinct..... breaks my heart knowing i cant afford to live in my home.. but id rather stay away than watch whats left of our people be destroyed by poverty, while they lose family homes.... than get marched off home... the generation the aloha finally died.......
@@christophergramling4898 Christ, Jesus said to hate evil, brother, and I HATE that I agree fully with you since delusion has replaced island-Mystery !!!!
@@christophergramling4898 Aloha♾
Mahalo
Grew up in Kahaluu. Every time I get home sick this is my song.
When my sisters were younger my dad used to play this song through the speakers while we ate dinner. He would sing along to the lyrics while the sun could be seen setting through our dining room window, the light summer breeze would flow in through the open doors and the small sounds of birds chirping could be heard outside. "Last night I dreamt I was returning..." I can still see him singing those words and I'm so happy that I have this song to remember him by. I love and miss you, dad.
My husband and I were listening to these guys sing in a restaurant in Honolulu when he proposed in front of my parents and asked my Dad for my hand. My Mom got so excited, she jumped up to hug us and knocked her hot Irish Coffee into Tom's lap. Amidst the confusion, my Dad said deadpan, "You can still back out, you know". They are all gone now, but I can close my eyes and remember how excited I was at that moment. I love the guitar in this .I love you, Tom. Dad and Mom.
It's sad, now, to think those moments are so far away. But at least not the memories. Don't forget.
That was so well written i feel like i just experienced this moment with you
how romantic
Thank you for sharing that memory....I'm totally smiling for you in that moment!
❤
Occasionally I have cried hearing some songs. But, I have never cried so many times to any other song. This one never fails. Every note contains the essence of Hawaii.
I’m not Hawaiian…my family is from Guam. But we love this song and we certainly feel it’s meaning. It holds even more meaning now for us, as it was one of my dad’s favorite songs. I cannot help but cry as I reminisce about him and living “down home” in our small village during the 1980s, while singing along to this song. Something about missing home…the time when life was simpler when you were younger, and when your family was still together. Gets me every time.
I remember descending Olomana, leaping like a mountain goat from boulder to grass, from pathway to tree, flying, one with the 'aina, breathing the mountain air, māna flowing freely, my spirit glowing. I awoke from a nap on the floor of the ironwood forest at the foot of Olomana to rejoin the others, who had descended along the trail in the traditional way, when they arrived there near the road to return to civilization.
I know I am not as I was when I left Hawai'i, and I know that Hawai'i has changed, but I know we will accept each other as we are. Bimeby perhaps I will return. Then I shall again be in Hawai'i as Hawai'i has always been in me.
This song touches my soul...makes me remember growing up on Oahu in the 70's and 80's swimming at Ala Moana beach, going to Kapiolani park, watching Checkers and Pogo after school and Kikaida, eating manapua and shave ice. Those were innocent times. And though the world and things change, my memories of those wonderful days stay and I will always consider Hawaii my home no matter where I am in the world.
+D Chang me, too. Arrived in 1959, left in 1992, but my spirit is still on O'ahu!
+D Chang - Came to Hawaii for UH back in 70's and left for Mainland before 9-11. Everytime the plane coming in to HNL airport, I still feel that I am coming home. Do not feel that strong any other places that i went.
+Jah Boize I'm not sure that, I know what I'm doing, I wanted to make a comment, about a comment, about a song that brings tears of long past dreams......
+D Chang
Da kine plate lunches....
well said brother....cherish those memories and be thankful u were apart if it all
This is one of the most beautiful and melodic anthems to emerge from the Hawaiian music renaissance.
Makes me rember the Hawaiian renaissance every time!
I’m reading through the comments and I can’t help but cry. Our way of life is changing so drastically and I feel nothing is being done to preserve it. I see so many out there who’ve been forced to move away from our home, our land, and most importantly what makes us, us. Come home and let’s stand together to take back and preserve our way of life. Aloha aina!
Eo! Come home ohana. Never surrender
Born and spent my youngest years in Puna. Grew up in seattle, got enough for a downpayment and now i’m getting ready to come back home. Preserving our lifestyle and culture is important
Leaving for Washington in few months…hart is broken and I’m no longer welcome in the island I was born.
As a living relative of king David a queen lily farewell my Hawaii I will no longer be laid to rest in my birthplace.
@@raymondcarter1137 7:7 8k"
I agree that HAWAIIANS have to get back. No Hawaiians No Aloha
The ocean, the mountains, the trade winds, the sunsets, the people, the culture, the islands -- all rolled up into one. Thank you Olomana.
Everyting but the smells of the napua.
This is spiritual for me, nothing tops the music of Hawaii for me. I grew up in Maunawili, one picture window I woke up to Olomana, the other window the Pali. Gods finest work. I miss it so. I pray I can get back to Hawaii as soon as I can. In the mean time I can listen to this music. Aloha ke Akua.
My parents live in Maunawili. They moved there many years ago from Kaneohe. Mauniwili is God's Country. I now live in Seattle and get to visit HOME in Hawaii.
@@Zach-dh2nf Windward side of Oahu near Mt. Olomana. Heaven on earth. I learned to swim at the YMCA down the road from Castle Hospital.
Did you make it back?
I also grew up in Maunawili , next to the bridge going up the road into the country and the newer homes just across the street . My cousin Dean got me listining to Olomana and Country Confort , he became a muscian and played at the ChartHouse in town for more than 30 years ! He just passed away last year and song will alway have a special place for me !
My family's from Laie, but I was mainland born. Lived there from 1977 to 1980. Never was the same afterwards. I dedicated this song to my wife Melissa who passed away in 2007 from breast cancer. The song speaks to my heart and gives comfort to my soul. A hui ho Ka mea ohi nani, a hui ho.
Aloha from Laie! 🙏🏼 Malama Kō Aloha!
This song is so beautiful. Like an Eagle soar so high in the winds.
A hui hou! ❤ 👋🏼
I am from Laie
I lived here then too when I was barely 20. Left to see a bigger world, left my family , left whet friends I had. Came back fifteen years later. Buried my parents and live here now 20+ some years.
I lived in Hawaii from 1974 till 2005. Best years of my life. Best friends, best times. Age 75 now going on 20 yrs. in Thailand. Couldn't think of returning to the mainland.True what they say "you can't go home again" RIP Robert B. Mahalo Olomana.
One of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard, I feel so lucky to be able to listen to this on a loop, whenever I want.😀
Always brings tears to my eyes. Raised in Kahaluu till I was 10 years old. Memories so beautiful. Home will always be Hawaii.
Donna Rivera Rivera I hope Hawaii holds to its traditions.... it’s beautiful and amazing
Same here. Wish my parents kept me there. Moved when I was 10
This song eases my soul for some reason. I’ve never been to Hawaii and I have nobody in my family that is Hawaiian. But I have always wanted to go there or live there. I have really bad anxiety most of the time. When I’m stressed out or I can’t sleep, I put this song on and it immediately makes me feel very happy and makes me remember the very few good times that I had as a child. Makes me appreciative towards life. It also helps me sleep.... no kidding. I’m out like a light and snoring before the song is even over lol. Much love to you all.
Rj Cortez this song really is the definition of true beauty
Aloha Ka Kou, brother' it's a piece of Paradise
Then when this Covid is over, you get yourself a plane ticket, and CV one visit these island(s)...I'm on Oahu, by the way, I live in Kahaluu....I'm looking at the ocean, its beautiful, peaceful, and I am not a local, but I was blessed to work here in 1979...I'm still here....so Aloha to you, I'm glad you are comforted by the sounds of Hawaii...May the Peace of God continue to Bless you. Aloha, Tom Mestas
I live on O'ahu for 11 years, my guess with slack-key guitar or a lot musician from Hawai'i is the music based on pacing of the Tradewinds. I think it's why you find is southing. It like being up camping at Kahana bay and hearing the trade rustling sound in plam fronds all night. For example Arthur Lyman grew up in HNL and even if Yellow bird is faux Polynesian the tempo is same as more serious musicians from the era (like Gabby Pahuni) ua-cam.com/video/mv1GpoaSzxQ/v-deo.html
If it touches your soul. U have the Aloha spirt flowing.
When u come here. U will feel it all around u. U will b happy I kno it.
Every note of this magnificent song plucks at my heartstrings. I lived on Maui for 35 years and i am so homesick for Hawaii there are no words to convey how much i miss The majestic beauty, the magnificient hearts of the hawaiian people & those beautiful islands. I love every song Olomana ever recorded, that Jerry ever recorded but this one remains very special and deeply cradled in my heart forever. Beautiful Hawaii i love and miss you so much... someday i hope to return and never leave again.
Did you return?
This is one of those songs that prove you can travel back in time..to a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, a certain moment - even a certain second..and you can smell what you smelled, feel what you felt..and be there.....for just a little while..aloha -kuahiwi
Aloha. Jus saying
I sit here in Fresno, homesick for Hawaii, this song takes me right back to where I grew up. Doing all these things as a kid before the many changes occurred. It was a magical place to grow up. . .aloha aina...
This lovely island home we all live in, just isn't the same as it used to be. The newer generation are losing touch with their roots, and aloha is a thing of the past. Cling dearly to those memories, I remember a day and time when these islands stood for something more than what this state has become. But I carry the aloha with me, in my heart, and I spread my mana'o everywhere I go, in hopes of rejuvination. I miss that energy I used to feel in everybody I would meet, oh how I wish I could go back. Aloha from Big Island!!
Ryan Baker Love you my braddah, So does your Maui Family IMUA LUNAS!
+Rose Swearingen Yeah I know... Me too... I live in Portland Oregon these dayz... But, I feel that our culture never left any of us and still to this day and beyond it will always will be with you.
Wow. Have lived in Clovis for the past 11 years (Missouri a few years before Clovis). Left the 50th back in '02. Never really got homesick. Until a couple of years ago. Been back the past couple of years. Hard to leave and return to the Central Valley...
Linda Lu hahahahahhaa!
I lived in Japan for three years when I was in the navy...I'm everywhere you don't want me to be! Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Last night I dreamt I was returning
And my heart called out to you
But I fear I won’t be like I left you
Me kealoha ku’u home o Kahalu’u
Love this song. Jerry Santos sang & wrote it beautifully.
A Bra that's Ole'mana song, I hope U know that.
Olomana is no more and Jerry Santos wrote it and still performs singing it. Last time I saw Him was at the Hilton Hawaiian @@donhirano6969
I grew up near Kahalu'u and always will remember being a kid and spending my weekends there. I'm 53 now and there is not a day goes by I dont think about my dad and my ohana growing up in Honokohau. The most valuable thing we have is time with our families. Aloha ke akua!
Aloha ke akua, mahalo nui!
One of the best songs ever written or sung. I was living on Maui when I first heard Olomana do that song on the radio. I was so moved I had to pull over....I thought I was dreaming because I had just heard the most beautiful song ever. I remember that moment like it was yesterday.
tell you what brah
Mahalo for sharing, I came from ohau, now on maui..MAUI NO KA OI
Sublime.
You know what I feel the EXACT SAME way my guy , I wish i could hear it for the first time again as that was one of the best experiences of my life. I deadass listened to this song on loop for over an hour while on a boat. Anyways love from the Caribbean 🤙🏾
@@charlesm.9858 Charles. My dad is from Da Valley Isle and a graduate of Liahinanluna High School. My youngest sister a graduate of Maui High School. No doubt...Maui no ka'oi!
Takes me back to the happy days I spent in Hawaii 1985-1998. Thank you Olomana!
When I visited Hawaii for the first time ever from Papua New Guinea..I felt I had come home..it was as if I knew the soul of this land and it knew me...I realized many islanders feel this way about Hawaii..When I hear this song a type of deep inexplicable melancholy sense of homesickness washes over me...beautiful Hawaii..you will always be a special spiritual home to us..
That is really interesting to read of your connection. PNG is so beautiful, like its people.
Love from Australia.
This song makes me emotional, I'm not from Hawaii but I wish I was. Just the beautiful hearted people by it's self is mesmerizing ❤ thank you for showing us western people what true heartship sounds like ❤
I was stationed in Pearl Harbor for 4 years. In short, I got involved with the culture and the people. It was so hard to leave when the time came. yes I married one of the islanders from Wailua and still have family on island today. With all that has happened since (even a return trip in 2016) for my brother in law's funeral. I can say no place feels the way Hawaii does. I miss it so much. And like so many other listeners here on YT, I too have a hard time controling the tears. Hawaii.... you will ever be inside me and never leave.
Tears and fond memories...parents lived in Kahalu'u. Got married in Kahalu'u. This is one of my all time favorite songs. Getting chicken skin listening to it now.
Das rite "Chicken Skin" :)
I remember days when we were younger
We used to catch 'o'opu in the mountain stream
'Round the Ko'olau hills we'd ride on horseback
So long ago it seems it was a dream
Last night I dreamt I was returning
and my heart called out to you
But I fear you won't be like I left you
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
I remember days when we were wiser
When our world was small enough for dreams
And you have lingered there my sister
And I no longer can it seems
Last night I dreamt I was returning
and my heart called out to you
But I fear you won't be like I left you
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
Change is a strange thing
it cannot be denied
It can help you find yourself
or make you lose your pride
Move with it slowly
as on the road we go
Please do not hold on to me
we all must go alone
I remember days when we were smiling
When we laughed and sang the whole night long
And I will greet you as I find you
With the sharing of a brand new song
Last night I dreamt I was returning
and my heart called out to you
To please accept me as you'll find me
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
Me kealoha ku'u home o Kahaluu
Lon Donald solid bradda
Lon Donald.
Thanks for the lyrics, and ALOHA!!! 🍎🐍
Mahalo!
Second verse...should be at the end,
" Last night I dreamt I was returning
and my heart called out to you
But I fear I am not as I left you...."
Akon
i listen to this song because I live in Cheyenne, Wyoming and I am a rare breed. I am half native american, and half Hawaiian my name is jonah and i have a message for you, yes you reading this commment, i am separated from my native land and treated as any other equal person. i miss hawaii and i plan to return to oahu waimanalo hawaii. (we all need one another, the gift of aloha comes from the heart.) simply put these lyrics speak volumes of what we desire.
Big Respect. Sending you and your Ohana my Aloha💯🙏🏽🤙🏽
I come from Kona, Hawai'i and my roots run deep in the Aina I call home. I worked in Yellowstone for 2 years and all I could feel was the deepest Mana in that Aina. Though it was Aina I was foreign too, I felt the Kupuna of those areas took me in as a brother of a similar culture and of a similar struggle. Aloha, Braddah 🙏🏽
You are a good person….you speak from your soul. Waimanalo waits for your return to the Hawaiian Islands. Further there are many families in Hawaii who are Native Americans. I believe some Native Americans is on Big Island. In the 1800’s, Ships mainly travelled from Europe passing through dangerous Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean. my grandfathers oldest brotherJoe Soares(real name is Goulart Silva) a Merchant Mariner died Cape Horn. American ships travelled from the Northwest to Foreign Countries. My grandfather Christian Soares belongs to the Barrett Family whom quite a few were Merchant Mariners.
My Uncle Christopher (Sonny) Soares said his father Chris lied his age and became a Merchant Mariner at age15.
Aloha Waianae Girl!
Aloha bruddah. I live up here mainland too and this song brings me back home every time. 🤙🏾
D
Grew up on Maui and I miss it so much. Listen and cry to great Hawaiian music. I really wanna go back, brahdda, to the old days before condos and mansions. I want cane fields and skinny dipping in Kihei.
problem is, the old days had operation Green Harvest, more social problems, and less tech and medicine. I get what you're saying though, gentrification hasn't been kind to Maui
KUMU RADIO AND KPOI! LOVE HAWAII TRYING TO GET BACK..PRAYERS.
Do not let maui turn into another oahu. Fight the tech overlords.
for all of us who lived in Hawai'i - it was a better time. How I wish I could return and stay.
I love this song it makes me like i am in hawii🤩🤩🤩😘😘😘🤪🤪🤪❤❤❤🧡🧡🧡💛💛💛💚💚💚💙💙💙💜💜💜💘💘💘💘💔💔💔
I don't recommend being homeless on Oahu anymore it sure has changed since the late 90s cops don't let you sleep anywhere and the ice addicts took over all of Waikiki
Even though this song is about Hawaii, it strikes a chord in all us ex-pats who live a long way from our homes and culture ..thank you Olomana
Very true💯
Crying in Long Beach, CA. I too remember watching Checkers and Pogo after school.... Boy, how I would trade anything to be back there, back then
omg checkers n pogo....its been so so long ago that i haven't heard anyone mentioning those programs...
Speed Racer, Princess Knight
Checkers and Pogo-bobbing for apples, Professor Fun, making thos upside down glasses with your fingers, eating a donut from a string, etc. Great memories! Life was simple back then and everything was a heck of a lot cheaper-Horlicks, Astro pops, Pez, candy chockers, Ovaltine, cinnamon toast for snack, musubi, vienna sausage, and carrots for lunch. Soda-25cents.
Elvis:
“A very merry un-birthday to you, to you!”
I’d give you da penny grab, but no can 😀
Elvis, I think we were classmates...does Melissa Nunes ring a bell? Wahiawa Intermediate
@@georgeyama6782 Remember C&P's show "On The Go" man it was great.
Who still here for this song in 2024??? Meeeeeeee #missing home #hawaiiborn
Me... miss home!!!
Forevahs...one of the greatest tunes from Hawaii ne
For the home sick and dreamers......a gift from Hawaii. Aloha friends.
John Kasinger
I miss home so much. I dream I am back home in Kailua nearly every night. I live to see that dream come to fruition.
Love and Aloha to My Hanai bothers and sisters
C. Yvette Benton
💖
Thank you, I miss Hawaii every single day. I hope to one day be back, hopefully permanently.
Love n miss these music! Stay Safe Aloha Land.
Jerry Santos & Robert Beaumont- what a fantastic musical duo. Beautiful Memories.
This song touched so many of us growing up in Hawai'i Nei. For me it was in the valleys along the Hamakua Coastline. Our playground was vast and we would stumble across hidden waterfalls filling swimming holes with clear, cool water.
Aloha my people I remember this song growing up in nanakuli in the 70s my pops and family playing olomana and now missing my mom and pops. I always make sure that my kids today love and honor olomana
Ben Rodrigues Amene! Gotta continue da Aloha for da 'Ohana and da 'aina hanau...da keiki need to know in order to perpetuate our people and homeland
My mother is from Nanakuli! We would move back and forth from California to Hawaii and vice versa. Spent a good amount of time there in the '70s. It was rough being the first hapa haole in my mothers family but have fond memories of life in Nanakuli.
My trainer/supervisor when i was at Hickam in the late 70's was Blanchard Rodrigues from Nanakuli. Any relationships?
I spent 43 years in Hawaii, love music; this song is the most beautiful Hawaiian song I know of. Fantastic arrangement!! Touches my soul.
One of the most haunting and beautiful songs ever written, and arguably the best song that was ever written about Ha'waii. Stuck in Texas.
Moe Dallas bring some Mahalo to Texas.
Waimanalo Blues...
One of the deepest, most beautiful song I have ever heard.
This song makes me miss Hawaii even though I still live here. It's that powerful.
I know what you mean.
Me too. I know the feeling. It's not the same and never will be.
Wow
Yes
Haha. I grew up in Kahaluu, I miss those small kid time days, and I still live here too 😀
It also gettn me thinkin 'bout grin'din lomi salmon, poi, pipikaula, portagee sausage, rice, porkhash, & mounds of laulau, with guava juice - ice cubes inside da cup.
Then top it off drink hot Kona coffee with kulolo
Ohmahgawad!!!!
I die go heavun.
Having lived in Hawaii for 14 years, off and on since the 80's and hearing from my grandparents who went before me about so many sad changes, this song tugs at my heart. The lyrics are also so true for anyone wondering about "going back home" wherever that home may be. And also about one's life too "when our world was small enough of dreams." The quintessential Hawaii song, "Ku`u Home' has multiple layers of meanings and Olomana is just beautiful.
just a child of Hawaii 90's baby with so much aloha and mana to give the world today. mahalo ke kapunas. my weaknesses became my strengths. Hawaii Oahu is where I'm from ewa to waipahu to waianae to wahiawa forever a local boyy in the the mainland
+Vincent Vidal, yes Hawai'i no ka 'oi
I am blessed to live in the beautiful mountains of Park City, Utah; but I constantly miss Hawaii. Once Aloha gets into your blood, it never leaves and ever beckons when you're away. Working on a plan to get back...permanently.
I go skiing there all the time, i live in hawaii
Ur lucky park city is amazing, the town ski lift and the town life is amazing i hate hawaii theres nothing to do and its just a giant tourist attraction now
I tried to go back last October...Oh My. Everything has changed so much. Still, I found peace and some of the Olden Times on the Island of Moloka'i. But don't tell anybody!
Good luck..da windward side is still country. People who hate da aina don't know the true spirit of da land da people and of course da ohana. ...you can do it brahda! Live your dream. One life.
This song brings me back to the 70's. I still live in Kahalu'u.
I was the morning manager of Blue Water Sea Food in Waikiki in 87/88 we had to play a tape of Hawaiian music in the morning for breakfast I think this song was on it...wow....I wish I could go back with what I know now,,,
Wow!! I just got chills down my back.
I have *not* heard this song since almost 40 yrs ago.
When my birth-family use to live in Kaneohe, O'ahu.
That's how old this *great awesome song* is. =)
Steve Hall Hay my bruddah...."with Warmest Aloha...."
Eh, brah. Howzit? =)
I posted alot of these beautiful "local" songs on my Facebook page......
+Steve Hall you went Castle?
Born and raised Kalihi, Hawaii never leaves the soul.
Russ Shannon Born at Queens, raised in Kalihi. Aloha bruddah.
Born at Queens, raised in Kalihi ( Kam IV Housing) went to Kaiwai Elem, Dole Inter, grad from Farrington High... Aloha Brah :)
Farrington Govs
Kapiolani 1970, grew up in Kailua, Punahou '89. These sounds are in our DNA.
One can never touch Hawaii...without Hawaii gon touch you back.
Is true.
1:38
aloha aina me ke aloha Hawaii nei
Amen!
I’m married to a Hawaiian man and have come to his home many times during our 35 years together. We loved taking my mother in law to the old Chai’s at Aloha tower to hear Jerry Santos perform. He was always very gracious and came to give her a hug and dedicate a song to her. I fell in love with all his music, but this was always my favorite. My mother in law had to leave her beloved islands to live with us in California when she could no longer care for herself at 96. She passed away this last December, at age 102. We brought her ashes home to be buried next to her husband and daughter. My husband and I are listening to this lovely song, getting choked up. Beautiful memories.
One of the best gifts the Air Force has given me over the last 16 years of service is 3 years living on the islands. It was my first base and I still miss it there. I loved the people, culture, the island life and especially the music. There was never an unhappy song. Even if I couldn't understand the lyrics, the music itself made me happy.
I am born and raised in Hawaii. When I was at AIT for the army, 6 months away from home, I’d listen to these songs whenever I got homesick to soothe me. Would bring a tear to my eyes whenever it was just me alone at CQ during the night.
You should look into Abby Martins (empire files) report about what the military base (cant recall which island/area) is storing underground, what I believe is mass amounts of jet fuel that is now seeping through after 60 or so years of storage since the cold war. Which has devastated local water supplies and wildlife.
ua-cam.com/video/7mMsGi11F-U/v-deo.html
It's sad what they're doing to Hawaii
@Beauty Disguised as Truth I heard something about that. It's from WWII if I remember right. A fuels storage broke down and is seeping into the ground water. It's sad that they did all that stuff back then without thinking what the long term effects would be.
growing up on the Waianae coast in the 70s and 80s, this was one of the staple songs before even FM100. miss it. living in texas now. big difference in culture but Waianae will always be home. Aloha
Hana Hou! hell yeah. I was also grown up to this song as well... Originally from Maili, Mailiona st. Now I re-located in Oregon.
bra , I used live on maliona , about 3 doors down from baba b.
advhutch Yeah I left Maili 20 years ago... Ever since I have been stuck in Portland Oregon. Their are a diverse culture here but, there are also a culture that keeps it to themselves... Personally I really don't like it. I miss maili/Waiane and tumble land the a lot. That was my homeland.
advhutch. Yeah...lol
Brings tears to my eyes. Home to me will ALWAYS be grandma's house in Kaneohe.
and Pahoa!
Pohoiki Rd, specifically.
Paewalani Pl , next to Green Haven
Valerie Lee I grew up in pahoa. I miss home so much.
i LOVE that you grew in Pahoa. My Mommy did TOOOO!
Missing what was and will never be again. Good times good friends even if I go back home...its not home anymore. that is gone...thank you my brudahs for the songs...they are forever ;0)
Nothing reminds me of home more than this song. Every time I hear it I long to go back home.
wtf? why u so li dat? never did anything to you. Besides, I'm hapa.
yeah, right. you jus one loco baka ハーフ。
Makes me miss what I had before. I had a family on the beach in Hawai’i on North Shore. Mom would play since when we had parties, luau and just get togethers with the whole compound of 12 units. Those volleyball games, dogs playing on the beach, Bon fires at night, platform in the wall where we played games, firework wars with the neighbors 😂 who had the most bad ass 🤪, and when the food was sooo Ono 😋 Now that’s all gone but at least I have the memories
Born in Kalihi valley, raised in Waianae, ended up on Maui. Life can’t get any better than living in the Islands
My most favorite song in da world. It always brings me back though I'm no longer on the islands. I pray to return before I die to my heartland. "Me ke aloha ku' u home o' Oahu"
as I sit here in Vermont listening to this song, tears fall from my eyes...
+Brent Perry I learned to dance this song, Kupuna Saffrey in Lahaina at Kam 3 school, it came back, I always cry when I hear this even if I only do the hand movements..chicken skin.
sitting in my kitchen in Mississippi. Kaneohe girl.
Bryan K. Right on. You're right. Cannot understand why people gotta act like that.
Mahalo!
Lol
Jah Boize honestly, I have no idea who that is
My sister and I lived in Maui and now she lives in galiano island and I live on the mainland but every time I stepped on the plane to come,back to Maui this song was playing and I couldn't wait to get back to the islands, we love this song! W
Been in the mainland (Seattle) since 1984. This song takes me back. Listening to KKUA while building my plastic model dune buggy.
Miss Kailua, Enchanted Lakes. Under the shadow of Mt. Olomana.
I am a local boy from Honolulu living on the mainland now and I start my day listening to this song -haukapila
Love love this song...my son Kevin's first time on the guitar...he learned this song from his cousins...now he is in heaven playing it for his ohana up there...his 2 brothers, grandparents, uncles, aunties and cousins...brings back a whole lot of memories...
I grew up in American Samoa until I graduated.
This album along with Kalapana, K&C and few others bring back such wonderful memories.
70's Makiki, Waipahu, Makakilo, Ewa Beach, Hau Bush, Waimanalo, Kailua, Diamond Head Crater fest. weekends in Waikiki on Kalakaua. Laie. Yes this song takes me back to a place that runs deep in my veins. Mahalo Olomana. Aloha...
Yes ewa beach, hau bush(Taylor’s farm)80’s
As much as we deride the technology of today, it gives us the opportunity to find these songs again. To revisit our youth on the islands, the life we felt in the land, and to contemplate our return. 'Please accept me as you find me' is as true today as it was so many years ago. Mahalo Olomana.
This song is powerful. The most powerful song that evokes a flood of emotions from my heart and many memories of growing up and not realizing what a blessing it was to have the opportunity to be there at the time. Now days I'm stuck in UTAH. lol
Kawika Chun
The brothers. And sisters
Gathering at Puas house in Hswaii kai after paddling for Hui Nalu
At Maunalua bay.Eating stew and rice,chili also with plenty mayo.
Listening to Olomana singing
Kahuluu. Memories of all us Hawaiians together enjoying life together . Aloha and Malama Pono.
oahu.. 1965-1967
back 1968-1974
back 1976-1977
now indiana, want to know what i really miss?
the koolaus , every morning to wake up and see the clouds and waterfalls.. and the smell of nuuanu pali drive,the eucalyptus.... and the smell of white ginger flowers......
First time I heard this magic song was in Pahoa.Visiting the treehouse of a very dear ,loving departed friend Victoria.Always brings tears to my eyes..change is especcially difficult when it brings the loss of one so loved..god be with you Darling.
we have Ohana in Pahoa too!
Living in Utah bussing the homegrown sounds for the bradaz ✊🏽 CHEEEE HUUUU 🤙🏽
No doubt one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
I remember cruzing the beaches of Oahu in the 80's with my mom dad & sister. Man those where the day's! Thanks for all the great memories Oahu! Most of all the time that was spent with my 👪
Aloha from Greenland, lovely song
Grew up in Kahalu'u. This song always makes me a bit home sick. I moved away many years ago, but still remember running up the trails to the Ko'olaus, sliding down the red mud slides, showering in the waterfall, then eating wild fruit all the way home... Those memories give me comfort. After 22 years, I now call New Zealand home..
I have left Hawaii but I have taken so many memories with to last a lifetime. Thank you Olomana for the beautiful memories and sharing your music. I shall return some day to experience the eauty of your islands!
One of my most favorite songs of all time.
C L )
I am back in Lahaina, but am feeling heart sick for the old songs like this one, which points out how undeniable changes are and that we can't hold back time even though I would love to relieve my time in Hawaii.
James Holliday lahaina chicken is da bes
Boy this song just drives it home. Growing up in Waimanalo moving to the Big Island and now Maui. Hawaii is the most beautiful place on earth.
when i moved to the Big Island in '77 this was one of the first songs that i heard while kickin on da beach from some bruddas singing kanikapili into the late Hawaiian night; takes me back to a more simpler time and some great friends from then on. Miss my island brudda's and sista's !!!!
I moved to Hawaii in 84, I was 14 years old! my friend Ted introduced this song to me. There is no other song that brings me closer to Hawaii! So blessed to have had 33 years in paradise! So sad! From the mainland!
madmauster if you don’t mind me asking, why did you leave?
@@RAS-gn5ll In my case, I had no choice to move to Hawaii in '68, because I was a kid living with my family. But 8 years later I moved back to the mainland, in spite of falling in love with the Islands, because I felt that being an outsider, I was more a part of the problem in Hawaii, than the solution.
every single time I hear this song I cry I miss home
This is the song that SPOKE to me about being Hawaiian. The first time I heard it, my transformation from Haole to Kanaka began. My "Kama'aina Birth" Song, so to speak. So Powerful. Mahalo - Jerry & Robert \ooo/
whawaii halo halo nang labas NATO an I
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No need be Hawaiian for be Kanaka. Aloha
Went to college in Hawaii in the late 70's. Would have loved to have stayed there, but it was not to be. Songs like this bring back wonderful memories.
Olomana is telling of Hawaii at its BEST just as hula tells story Olimana keeps the heartbeat which will carry on through generation
Being a Hawaiian at heart, This song makes me long for the Islands. "Me ke aloha"
I’m Native from Kahalu’u and I was born and raised right behind Uncle Jerry’s Sister Aunty Enid’s House, next to St. John’s By The Sea Episcopal Church. Ho’okano Hall right across the street from where the old Pineapple Hut used to be, on Wailau Point, the park, etc. That whole neighborhood was full of generations of family. I went to pre-school at Ho’okano Hall, Head Start when was just down and across the street from the elementary school. I still remember the names of my teachers, Mrs. Ciotti, and Mrs. Lopez. I went to Kahalu’u Elementary School. My mom used work at the old Key Project when it was by the Hygienic Store. My dad was one of the OG’s that set up business right under the Banyan tree for years. Before that at the Texaco parking across the street. I tried to see Uncle Jerry play earlier this year at the Hilton, but he canceled the night I went because he was sick. I was so disappointed, to say the least. I was down because three of our family members died earlier this year, really close together. The older generations disappearing, so sad, and now I’m entering into the older generation. Mahalo Uncle Jerry for blessing us with your music! When I miss home, I jam this song and others to cry it all off. Nobody can understand the emotional connections this song brings, as much as people from Kahalu’u, who had to leave it behind, especially if they grew up there in the 70’s when this song came out. Kahalu’u was like an island within an island, a very unique culture of its own, back in the old days, when it was more country than it is today. Everything in the lyrics I can relate to and imagine doing my self, just like I was back in time. Unreal. To all the kanaka ma’olis and kama’ainas that find this Aloha!
We must be about the same age those were the happiest times of My Life as well and I remember Checkers and pogo pog, kikaida, and everything that you mentioned. How wonderful those days were! With God in your heart those memories will live on forever.
Nuuanu born and raised...Always go to this song when i feel my home calling me back....And ive caught O'opu in a mountain stream...ONO !!!!!
I was 18 in the Navy living in San Jose, CA. It was a cold December morning and I was listening to this on my Walkman watching the sun rise in the smoggy sky. I was waiting for my cousin to pick me up. I remember it like it was just yesterday... fond memories :)
Family home going back to the mid 1960's is in Hauula up the windward side. Still get out there every winter and think of this song every time I drive through Kahaluu coming from Honolulu.
My family moved from Samoa to Kalihi. Lived there for four years. Then moved to Kahaluu for my high school years. No matter how many times I’ve moved, “me ke aloha kuu home o Kahaluu”
I lived in Kahaluu during my high school years, also! Graduated Kailua High, in 1972. I had a district exemption to go to Kailua High. I loved Kahaluu so much. The most beautiful place, anywhere. And the local people were so kind and full of aloha. If only the real Hawaii could be preserved the way it used to be. Mahalo. Hau'oli La Pakoa!
reminisce... I'm so proud to have been born in a paradise. no matter the generation nothing but respect for these artist. thank you.!
My grandpa passed away on June 16th, 2017. Him and my grandma raised my mom and her sisters in Kahalu'u and this song reminds me so much of him. Love and miss you pops!
Love this song...I lived in Waikiki in the 70's, worked a beach shack at Fort Derussy before the Hale Koa was build. This song would come on and everyone stopped to listen. When I hear it now I still stop, smile and hear the waves, and remember such a magical time. I still have the LP
This song brings back so much memories growing up in Hawaii, miss family and friends so much
I cry every time I hear this song because it was my papas favorite song. It brings back so many memories and makes me proud to be born and raised Hawaiian.
D Chang, I am in Amman Jordan listening to this beautiful song while doing dialysis in a foreign land but my heart is in Hawaii. I concur wholeheartedly with your comments. Hawaii is not the same but wherever we’re, it will always be home for us. Aloha!
I was born on Lana'i and raise in Kaneohe and Kahalu'u and it takes me home every time! Love my Hawaiian mele's......